embroidery stitch

Each embroidery stitch has a special name to help identify it.

The felt is then covered with a layer of embroidery stitches.

It is nearly always used in combination with other types of embroidery stitches.

But they mastered sewing in their teens at these schools, learning various embroidery stitches.

She showed me how to cover the cloth with an embroidery stitch which finally created a small, neat, round button.

The remarkable stability of basic embroidery stitches has been noted:

Many different embroidery stitches are used in crewelwork to create a textured and colorful effect.

The bird's wing and tail feathers are outlined in swirling lines of embroidery stitches.

This article is about knotted embroidery stitches.

Embroidery stitches are also called stitches for short.

Embroidery stitches are the smallest units in embroidery.

Only 18 embroidery stitches were in use in the country before the Communist China was founded in 1949.

Further richness comes from the custom of employing the designs with various embroidery stitches, appliques and patchwork.

It is for this reason that many needlepoint stitches must be of sturdier construction than other embroidery stitches.

There were allusions to senninbari ("thousand-person-stitches"), belts made for Japanese soldiers that incorporate single embroidery stitches collected from 1,000 people.

They had been raised to nothing more challenging than a complicated embroidery stitch or how to decline a second dance with a suitor they found unappealing.

The embroidery stitch employed is rather like the parallel darning stitch and is rarely allowed to penetrate the entire fabric.

"There's a pleating on the front and an embroidery stitch, and the more pleats there are on the back the more expensive it is.

Such quilts were often effectively samplers of embroidery stitches and techniques, displaying the development of needle skills of those in the well-to-do late 19th-century home.

She thought, it might, in this weather, be just as well to be a lady by the fire, with nothing to do but make embroidery stitches and bake spicebread!

"I know seventeen different country dances, nine ways to agree with an ambassador from Cathay without actually promising him anything, and one hundred and forty- three embroidery stitches.

In the context of embroidery, an embroidery stitch means one or more stitches that are always executed in the same way, forming a figure of recognisable look.

Tufts of sea oats were growing on the crest of the sand and a hermit crab had crossed the surface, leaving a narrow track that looked like an embroidery stitch.

If you were to try smocking a p1, k1 type rib, the whole thing would become far too dense and bulky and the embroidery stitches would not have the correct definition.

Assisi embroidery is a form of counted-thread embroidery based on an ancient Italian tradition where the background is filled with embroidery stitches and the main motifs are left void i.e. unstitched.